Statistics for health policy and administration using Microsoft Excel / James E. Veney

By:

Veney, James E

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Jossey-Bass health care seriesPublisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2003Description: xviii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0787964581
9780787964580

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: Statistics for health policy and administration using Microsoft Excel.DDC classification:

610/.285 22

LOC classification:

RA409.5 .V466 2003

NLM classification:

2003 O-648
W 84.1

Contents:

Excel as a statistical tool -- Data acquisition: sampling and data preparation -- Data display: descriptive presentation, Excel graphing capability -- Basic concepts of probability -- Measures of central tendency and dispersion: data distributions -- Confidence limits and hypothesis testing -- Statistical tests for categorical data -- t tests for related and unrelated data -- Analysis of variance -- Simple linear regression -- Multiple regression: concepts and calculation -- Extensions of multiple regression -- Analysis with a dichotomous categorical dependent variable

Summary: This book provides an introduction to the use of statistics in health policy and health administration related fields. It is keyed to the powerful statistical tool Microsoft Excel and shows how to prepare data and understand the data display capabilities of the program.--[book cover]

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library Nursing Buliding	RA409.5 .V466 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		N4214

Includes bibliographical references and index

This book provides an introduction to the use of statistics in health policy and health administration related fields. It is keyed to the powerful statistical tool Microsoft Excel and shows how to prepare data and understand the data display capabilities of the program.--[book cover]

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